EDITORIAL NOTES.

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 18, 15 November 1929, Page 6

EDITORIAL NOTES.

THE Exhibition in Auckland proved, as was anticipated, a distinct _success. This outcome cannot but be satisfactory to the com‘mittee responsible for the arrangements. The attendance of the public was good, without quite meeting perhaps the fullest expectations of the most optimistic, and the trade derived from that attendance was also encouraging. Not only have sales been made as a direct result from the Exhibition, but a foundation of interesting prospects built up which will certainly be consummated in more sales in the near future. The experience gained is of value to the whole trade, and is likely, we think, to lead to the establishment of a radio exhibition as a permanent feature of trade activity in the northern city. A similar success may confidently be looked for in the case of the Christchurch Exhibition, which will be a feature of Carnival Week. There, too, | an active committee of the trade concerned has arrangements well in hand, and with the co-ordination and co-operation of the Radio Broadcasting Company, will stage a show interesting in every way to listener and prospect. Functions such as these definitely stimulate interest in radio, and more than that, lead to a very desirable degree of co-operation between the traders and other participants in the broadcasting service, such as the Radio Broadcasting Company and the radio newspaper Press. With a total of 50,000 licensed listeners in prospect, the future is bright for a steady expansion. AS we write, the thoughts of the more reflective and interested listeners are becoming focused upon the. rebroadcast by 55W of the Armistice Day celebrations in London.: For several years now it has been the practice of the British Broadcasting Corporation to utilise 5SW for broadcasting to the world a relay of this impressive service. In this, the most distant Dominion ofall, that event, incomplete although it might be by reason of remoteness and a technique not yet perfect, has come to rank as one of the features of the broadcasting year. This is because of its intimate association with the War and the life of the whole Empire. The ceremony has a sentimental value far exceeding the actual radio significance of the event. It presents an opportunity for the linking of the overseas Dominions with the Motherland in the celebration: of an event of outstanding national importance. No memories are so vital and soul-stirring as those occasioned by the celebration of Armistice Day.

It is an occasion when the perpetuation of the two-minute silence unites the whole Empire in a common bond. In the development of that sentiment radio plays its distinctive: part; in fact, without radio the occasion would lack’some part of the value that does now attach to it. With the close co-operation of all overseas broadcasting stations within range of 5SW, the atmosphere of the service before the London Cenotaph is diffused over all the British Dominions. Ere these words appear in print the occasion will have passed, but.whether conditions are good or ill, the fullest effort will be made to enable New Zealand . listeners to join with their brethren overseas in attending in spirit at the ceremony at. the Cenotaph and paying tribute to those who fought and fell in the War, and laid the foundation for that sad but triumphant Armistice. PTITLTTTATTITTTTTATITLTTLTTATTTT TTT TAT TTT ATT TTT TTT ETT L TL ET TTT ITT TT ITT TTETT TT eT iii tii iii iii iiiie